Critic Reviews

If you grew up in the 1990s, a latchkey kid glued to the television waiting for that signature surf-guitar riff from The Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, there’s little doubt that the revival will give you those same feelings all over again.

Here are five guys well past their supposed prime just ripping into the form as if they never left.

True to the nature of sketch comedy, each episode has hit and miss moments — but when they work, the humor is silly and savage.

Not all of the sketches work—there’s no show where they all work—but the batting average is still so much higher than most programs that the Kids inspired into existence. ... They’re still hilarious, smart, and sometimes brutal. It makes me very happy to say the Kids are still more than alright.

Well-written, expertly performed, unashamedly odd and full of beans.

The new sketches manage to surprise amid the wash of familiar allusions.